Warning about picking your own mushrooms

Scougar · 1 Dec 2012 at 12:33

Look up what happened to the author Nicholas Evans and his family, when they picked the wrong mushrooms (and they got lucky!). Totally in agreement with Naffa.

neodude · 1 Dec 2012 at 12:33

Naffa said:
he then made herself a nice vat of mushroom soup

Gender Bender Mushrooms!

Nitefly · 1 Dec 2012 at 12:41

I remember a lecture I had on mushrooms once... Turns out there are quite a few nasty ones that can be confused with the edible sorts.

I'll pass!

arknor · 1 Dec 2012 at 12:46

Castiel · 1 Dec 2012 at 12:47

Even exprerts have been know to get it wrong, so just make sure any mushrooms you eat come from a punnet and not your back lawn.

Theophany · 1 Dec 2012 at 12:54

Where I used to live in the Midlands, Clee Hill was only a 20 minute drive and a local hot spot for mushroom picking. Thing is, we had to do it in the dead of night as police were quite keen to stop people picking the mushrooms. Sham really as they made a lovely cuppa...

G-MAN2004 · 1 Dec 2012 at 12:58

What happens if you make someone a soup and kill them off? Could you get away with it by claiming you thought they were safe mushrooms?

Craig1981 · 1 Dec 2012 at 12:59

I don't really see the appeal of going out forraging for food. Unless society crumbles towards the end of the month, I doubt mushroom hunting will be something I ever try.

cm1179 · 1 Dec 2012 at 13:01

atleast she went out doing something she enjoyed!

4T5 · 1 Dec 2012 at 13:03

Not mush room in this thread for comment, I feel like I've been left in the dark & covered in ****.

danza · 1 Dec 2012 at 13:15

cm1179 said:
atleast she went out doing something she enjoyed!

What, having crippling abdominal pain caused by renal failure?

cm1179 · 1 Dec 2012 at 13:17

Theophany said:
Where I used to live in the Midlands, Clee Hill was only a 20 minute drive and a local hot spot for mushroom picking.

you must've lived very close to me then!

clee hill people were interbreeding until the turn of the 19c :eek:

Fenris · 1 Dec 2012 at 13:33

I think the advice that should be gleaned from this is don't go out picking mushrooms if you are a dumb ass and don't know what the poisonous ones looks like.

413x · 1 Dec 2012 at 13:52

so it stops your cells making any machinery. lovely way to go. and pretty slow at that. most active organs go first!

mistercrabb · 1 Dec 2012 at 13:53

Glaucus said:
How do you mistakenly pick death caps. They are very distinctive.

I remember reading that death caps kill a lot of Asian people because they look almost identical to an edible variety found in that part of the world.

Cosimo · 1 Dec 2012 at 13:54

danza said:
What, having crippling abdominal pain caused by renal failure?

It was the toad in her stool that did for her.

Theophany · 1 Dec 2012 at 14:18

cm1179 said:
you must've lived very close to me then!

clee hill people were interbreeding until the turn of the 19c

Bewdley.

And I'm convinced that Cleobury is still full of interbreds.

Xordium · 1 Dec 2012 at 14:36

4T5 said:
Not mush room in this thread for comment, I feel like I've been left in the dark & covered in ****.

Jokes like that make me think you are a real fun gi ... (I'll leave now sorry)

cm1179 · 1 Dec 2012 at 14:37

Theophany said:
Bewdley.

the lights are being switched on tonight and the flood defences failed

saint annes or wribbenhall?

Theophany · 1 Dec 2012 at 14:40

cm1179 said:
the lights are being switched on tonight and the flood defences failed

saint annes or wribbenhall?

I know, I swear those defences are a running joke

I'm a St. Anne's and BHS product, back before it all became whatever mess it is now! Were you from one of the two as well?